Magazine Sixty
Music reviews and artist interviews
Magazine Sixty brings you reviews and interviews with some of the worlds leading independent artists. Discover excitng new electronic music, revisit seminal classics and hear from the people behind the sounds.
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This is fucking excellent. Dino Lenny’s output has of course been stunning over the years and this collection of released and unreleased tracks only heightens the thought. From the punk-funk of Deep & Dark through to the twisted Tech of Go Down To Mexico the producers music never misses a trick, or the chance to
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There is something particularly fitting about the way the smouldering drums collide with Guilio Schochia’s haunting, breathy vocal that so captures these uncertain moments in time. Ambra, is a captivating piece of music that dives into depths, hinting at Jazz via cool blasts of horn yet all the while feels forward-thinking, escaping Disco’s bland re-edit.
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Brock Van Wey, aka bvdub provides the antidote to the notion that Ambience is merely something that hangs around in the background, opening out space for thought. While these ever evolving envelopes of sound are unfolded they do adorn the airwaves with a sense of contemplative room to think, but they are far from passive
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I always found the word Pop difficult to describe music. I get that it’s popular but in a way it denigrates the strength of what you’re listening to, distilling it down to being inconsequential. Scott Hardware’s engaging new album opens with, not surprisingly, Intro which overlaps waves of ambience and grating synthesized sound, complimented and
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The end is where we start from. Echoing Elliot’s timely vision is a sound place to begin this next instalment of compositions designed explicitly by Steve Miller aka Afterlife. Four equally seductive numbers quench the thirst for all things musical beginning with the sublime title track: Burning Man. Probing at thoughts of environmentally sustainability, which
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Katmandu plays like a positive feast of musical delights. Irresistibly rhythmic, emotive and all the while perfectly pitched music to ignite your mind and soul. Not surprisingly the drums feature centre stage as they groove, offsetting the other percussion with punctuating excellence, while chanting voices and rugged bass dig further. Try the Original version, produced
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It feels increasingly hard to tune in right now. Perhaps that’s why Felony seems fresh in uncertain times. Under usual circumstances this might effortlessly breeze by, referencing the soulfulness of past glories, sounding like a cruise on a hot summer’s day – windows down, roof off. But as good music translates, traversing timelines this combination